Emergency safety support for brake beams



Sept. l, 1925.

S. A. CRONE EMERGENCY SAFETY SUPPORT FOR BRAKE BEAMS 'Filed sept. 1924 2 sheets-sneet 1 Q .Mllvkb @Y .mw

wf@ Ww I l, LLZ. ATTORNEY INVENTOR 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Sept. `6, 1924 S A CRONE EMERGENCY SAFETY SUPPORT FOR BRAKE asus INVENTOR Sepa l, 1925.

lState of New Jersey,

Patented Sept. 1

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snriH A. cnoNE, or nnsfi- ORANGE, New

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JERSEY, AssIGNon To BUFFALO Banni; Y.,

. BEAM n Conroe/Arlon oF NEW Yoan'.

EMERGENCY SAFETY SUPIEQ'B-T BRAKE Application filed September To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that 1, Serri A. GROHE, a

of East Orange, in

the county of Essex and have invented certain new, and useful improvements 'in Emer- Uencv `Safety Su Loits for Brake Beams of zo .f J a which the following is a specification.

The invention pertains to railway brake beams and particularly to novel auxiliary or emeivency supporting bars extending below E) and to receive vent'ion being the brake that said beams should become from their hangings,

( to prevent, in dent, the brake beamsfrom roadbed, derailment being thereby beams in the event detached one purpose of the incase of accifalling to the avoided.

A further andv important part of the invention resides in the provided for securing special means 1 have the auxiliary or einer# gency bars tothe bottoni'l of the spring plank,

these means being clamp and support bars andalso, when convenient removal moval, in a speedy adapted to very firmly the auxiliary emergency necessary, to permit the of said bars, such Vreand convenient manner,

beingv'desirable in the 'event thatl it should be necessary to unhang a purposes.

,A further purpose of provide means brake for rep air the invention is to securing the emergency manner, reducing the manufacturing and labor costs time providing to a minimum,rwhile at the same means` of extreme durability for receivingand maintainingthe emergency or safety bars.

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invention also provides a safety bar of great strength without excess of weightl therein.

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed presented, reference panyns drawings.,

description hereinafter being had to the accomin which,

Fig. 1 is a vertical longitudinal section through with the tion being on the dotted Fig@ isa top view,

of the Same;

a portion of a Y features of my invention, theseccar truck equipped line 1 ,.-1 of Fig. 2; partly broken away,

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section through the same of Fig. 2.;

taken on the dotted line Fs- 4 'is a vertical .transverse ,Section spring 6, 1924,. Serial No, 736,202.

through the sameV taken on the dotted line 11-11 of Fig. 2, i y l Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse section through the same'take'n on the` dotted line 5-5 of Fig. 2v;

Fig. 6 is a bottom pla-n view of the bracket which I secure to thel spring plank for receiving and supporting thev emergency. or safety bar;

Fig. 7 is a bottom plan view of the central portion only of the emergency or safety bar, this figure being presented to illustrate theflanging inwardly of the side members of said barto form seats for the transverse securing pin, by' which 'the barbecomes locked fwithin the bracket orsuppor'tshown in Fig. 6, and Fig. 8 is 'a top view, partly broken away, of 'a car truck showing... the auxiliary or emergency supporting bars positioned below the end portions of the brake beams, at each side of the truck.

1n the drawings 10 designates' aconven tional formof spring plank and 11 portions of 'inside hung trussedbrake beams of usual character comprising compression members 12vand tension members or trussfrods 13. The invention pertains tothe bracket 14, emergency or safety bar. 15, and locking'` pin 16, these features being'Y duplicated at'the opposite sides of the truck, as shown in Fig. 8,' so thatthe emergency or safety bars may durable and in an economical 'extend belowboth end portions of the brake beams.

The metal andof channel form, comprises a t-opv member 17 and depending sidemembers yor flanges 18, which are of suilicientjdepth to receive between them the emergency orV safety bar' 15.' The bracket 14 is riveted to thespring plank 10 by means of rivets 19 which extend through the plank and the top member 17- of the bracket 14 andare headed on their upper and lowerlends, as shown. The bracket: 14 has the -front and' rear end portions of` its side/members 18' flanged inwardly Vtoward each other, as at 20,' 'to form'Y supports for the emergency or safety bai-'515, and the side members'or flanges 18 of the bracket 14' are formed with transverse openings-21` to receive the pin 16,' by? which; the.v emergency or safetyA bar 15 is secured in stationary position 'within'the channe'lof: the. bracket 14. The bracket 14 extendslongitudinally and said bracketA Cil of the car truck and in length is about equal to the width of the spring plank 10, and each car truck will be provided adjacent to each end of the spring plank with a supporting bracket 14, provision being thereby made for two emergency or safety bars 15, one being located adjacent to each side of, the car truck and below the end portions of the brake beams. The bracket 14 being of wrought metal and formed of channel form, and having` the end inturned flanges 20, is of extreme durability and easy of manufacture.

The emergency or safety bar 15 is in one continuous piece and is of channel-form, comprising a top member 22 and depending side members or; flanges 23. The top member 22 of the emergency or safety bar 15 is formed throughout its length with a concave groove 24, which is adapted to receive and be slid along the lower heads of the rivets 19. The side flanges 23 of the bar 15 are plain tliroughout except at the'transverse central portion of the bar, whereat said side members 23 are flanged inwardly, as at 25, to form concave recesses to receive the upper side of the securing pin 16 and also broad bearing surfaces to engage said upper surface of the pin 16. The bar 15 at its opposite sides extends from the end flanges 2O to the lower surface of the top member 17 of the bracket 14, as shown in Fig, 4, and hence said bar becomes snugly positioned within the bracket 14 and is supported at each end of the bracket by the flanges 20,

After the bracket 14 has been riveted to the spring plank, only two rivets being required for each bracket, said bracket is left permanently in position. The safety or emergency bar 15 is slid endwise into the bracket 14 until its transverse central portion is at'the transverse central portion of the said bracket, and when the bar 15 has attained this position, vthe recesses formed therein by the flanges will be in line with the upper portions of the openings 21 formed in the side members or flanges 18 of the bracket, and thereupon the pin 16 will be driven through the apertures 21 and against the seats formed by the flanges 25 of the bar 15, or to the position shown in Figs. 4 and 5, in which position the pin 16 becomes interlocked with the bar 15 and prevents endwise movement of said bar. The pin 16 also aids in firmly securing the bar 15 within the bracket and to prevent any rattling movement of said bar.v pin 16 is tapered at one end, as at 26, to facilitate the positioning of the pin and particularly to enable the forward end of the pin to 5nd and pass through theaper- Iture 21 in the inn-er side flange or member '18of the :bracket 14. The pin 16 has a head 27 ,on one ,end kand at its .other .end will be The equipped with a cotter key 28. I preferably apply to the pin 16 a lock 29 for securing the pin against displacement in the event that the cotter key 28 should become broken or lost. The lock 29 is formed from one integral piece or strip of sheet metal and comprises an inner end member 30 which is apertured to allow the pin 16 to pass through it, a base member 31 which extends below the bracket 14 and from one side to the other thereof, a vertical member 32 which is positioned against the outer side flange 18 of the bracket and apertured to permit the pin 16 to pass through it, and an extension member 33 which projects from the upper end of the member 32 and is bent downwardly against the outer face of the head 27 of the pinl 16. The lock 29 by reason of its construction and mounting and by the engagement of its extension portion 33 against the outer face of the head 27 of the pin 16,` will retain the pin in place even though the cotter key 28 may `become lost or broken.

IV hen, for any reason, it should be desired to remove the emergency or' safety bar 15, or slide the same, without complete removal, endwise from below one or the other of the brake beams 11, thel extension member 33 of the lock 29 will be bent upwardly and outwardly from the head of the pin 16, and thereupon the cotter key 28 will be removed and the pin 16 withdrawn from the bracket 14, thus leaving the bar 15 free to be slid endwise along the bracket 14 either forwardly or rearwardly and to any extent desired, said bar, if not entirely removed from the bracket, being in any of its positions supported by the inturned flanges 20 of the racket.

The features of my invention thus comprise the wrought metal bracket 14, wrought metal bar 15, and a pin 16, andthe bracket 14 becomes efficiently secured to the spring plank by only two rivets 19, whose lower heads cooperate with the features of the bracket in guiding the bar 15 into and from' the bracket. My invention, therefore, comprises only a few easily manufactured and installed parts of very durable character.

I do not limit my invention to all of the details of form and construction hereinbefore specifically described in presenting the preferred embodiment ofmy invention, since I am aware that some of these details may be modified within the spirit of my invention and the scope of the appended claims.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: i

1. In a car-truck having a spring plank and inside hung brake-beams, an auxiliary or emergency safety-bar extending longitudinally below and normally free vof the beams, and means removably supporting and inside hung; brak dinally.- ,belowv and` normally to provide supports and inside hung brake-beams,

locking the same against en'dwise n iovein'ent.`

2. Ina 'car-'truck liavingya spitting"` plank beams, an auxiliary or emergency lsafetyI bar extending longitudinally below and ,freek of tlie beams, and means remo'vab'ly Vsupposting Said ber, from the semis. sleek, @reprises an inverted 011211.11161 bracket secure'dlto the spring plankand having end portions of its depen-cime se aan@ @muy to provide 'supports for said safety bar, and a. transversev pin, v extending fol-trough said sidef .membersVV and engagingsaid ai' V for locking the same againstfendwise movement. o 3. jln lafcar-truck having Va spring `plank and yinside hung brake-beams, v an auxiliary oremeijgency safety bar extending longitu- VAfree of the beams and.. .bein-gy of' inverted 'channel Lshape in cross-section, an inverted channel bracket secured to the spring-,plank and having portions of its side members flanged inwardly for said safety bar and a transverse pin extending through said side members and engaging said bar for locking thesame against endwise movement.

t. In a car-truck having a spring plank an auxiliary or emergency safety bar extending longitudinally below and normally free of the beams and being of inverted channel shape in cross-section, an inverted channel bracket secured to the spring plank and having portions of its side m'embers ianged inwardly to provide supports for said safety bar and a transverse pin extending through said side members and engaging said bar for locking the same against endwise movement, said safety bar having portions of its side members transversely recessed to interlock with said pin.

5. In a car-truck having a spring plank and inside hung brake-beams, an auxiliary or emergency safety bar extending longitudinally below and normally free of the beams-and being of inverted channel shape in cross-section, an inverted channel bra-cket secured to the spring plank and having portions of its side members flanged inwardly to provide supports for said safety bar and a transverse pin extending through said side members and engaging said bar for locking the same against endwise movement, said bracket being secured to the spring plank by rivets extending through said plank and the top member of said bracket and headed on their lower ends, and said safety bar being longitudinally depressed f rivets.

' ing alon-gits t'op lnre-naher-to lslide alonglsaid 6'. In a'car-t-ruck having aqs-'prin'gSfp-lank and inside hung y brake lb'ea'ms, an f auxliary orI emergency safety tu'dilnally below -aiidfnormally free-ofthe bar! F xtend-ingl longibeams andv being of inver-eed clia-n-nel shape f in cross-section, an inverted 'channel bracket secured to the spring pflankandvhavinlgerrd portions of its 'depending side! members flanged inwardly". to provide supports-fo" said safety bar and said side "ni'emibeigsbo at their transverse vcentral portions formed" with registering apertureslvand' a transverse extending thro-ugh said aper- L tures below the transverse central-portion of said bLarfory locking the salme 'aga-inst eirdwise moveinenaithe ide vmembers of f said safety bar being recessed tointerl'ock with saidvpin..` A Y 1 7. In a. car-truck having a. spring plank and inside hung,brake-beams,an aul'x 'ary or :emergency safety bar extending longitudin'allyy bel-ow and normally free ofA the beams and bfeing of i-nvertefdff'clralnnel {shsape in cross-section an d longitioidinally depressed in its `top memben means removal@ por'tin said bar b'elowf the? springl comprising' 4v'acliannel'edfbracketz 'see-uredv to the spring plank and adapted to snugly receive said bar, and a transverse pin extending through said bracket and engaging said bar.

'8. ln a car-truck having a spring plank and an inside hung trussed brake beam, auxiliary or emergency safety bars extending longitudinally below and normally free of the end portions ofthe beam, and means removably-supporting said bars from the spring plank, comprising brackets having top members secured to the spring plank and depending side members, portions of which are flanged inwardly to provide supports forl said safety bars, and transverse pins extending through said sidemembers below and engaging said bars for locking said bars against endwise movement.

9. In a car-truck having al spring plank and an inside hung trussed brake beam,

removably supporting said bars from the spring plank, comprising brackets having top members secured to the spring plank and depending side members, portions of which are flanged inwardly to provide suppo-rts for said safety bars, and transverse pins extending through said side members below and engaging said bars for locking said bars against endwise movement, said bars being of inverted channel form and having edge portions of their side members transversely recessed to .interlock with saidY pins.

10. In a car-truck having a spring plank and an inside hung trussed brake beam,

auxiliary or emergency safety bars extending longitudinally below and normally free of the end portions of the beam, and means removably supporting said bars from the spring plank, comprising inverted channel shaped brackets riveted to said spring plank and having portions of their side members 'flanged inwardly to` afford supports for said safety bars, and transverse pins extending through the side members of said brackets below and engaging said bars for locking said bars against endwise movement, said bars being of inverted channel shape and havingL their tops depressed to form longitudinal grooves and the edge portions of their side members transverse y recessed to interlock with said pins.

11. In a car-truck having an inside hung brake-beam, auxiliary bars extending longitudinally below the end portions of said beam, and means removably supporting said bars from the spring plank, comprising brackets having depending longitudinal side members which are parallel with each other and suspended from the spring plank and adapted to receive between them said bars, said side members having transverse alignedholes formed therein, and transverse clamping pins driven through said holes and against transverse surfaces of said bars with wedging effect, said pins being tapered at one end and having a head on the other end.

l2. In; a car-truck having an inside hung brake-beam, auxiliary barsl extending longitudinally below the end portions of said beam, and means removably supporting said bars from the spring plank, comprising brackets having depending longitudinal side members which are `parallel with each other and suspended from the spring vplank and Vadapted to receive between them said bars,

said side members having transverse aligned holes formed therein, and transverse clamping pins driven through said holes and against transverse surfaces of said bars with wedgingv effect, said pins being tapered at one end and having a head on the other end, and said bars being transversely recessed where they are engaged by said pins'for interlocking therewith. y

Signed at New York city, in theroounty of New York and State of New York, this 4th day of September A. D. 1924.

SETI-I A. CRONE. 

